Back or seat for chairs



N0. 6I8,l8l. I Patented Jan. 24. i899.

L. H. MGKEE.

BACK OB SEAT FUR CHAlRS, 8w.

(Application filed. Apr. 23, 1898.

(No Model.)

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LOUIS II. MCKEE, OF TREN'ION, NEW JERSEY.

BACK OR SEAT FOR CHAIRS, 800.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 618,181, dated January 24, 1899.

Application filed April 23, 1898. Serial No. 678,573. (No model.)

To (LZZ whom it may concern: or plate-4n this instance the seat Bapplied Be it known that I, LOUIS H. MCKEE, a citithereto, said seat consisting of the upper and zen of the United States, residing at Trenton lower sections and D, in the production of 55 in the county of Mercer, State of New Jersey, which I employ a single piece of material E, have invented anew and useful Improvement having rectilinear upper and lower surfacesF in Backs or Seats for Desks, Benches, or Simiand G, said material being severed in any suitlar Articles, which improvement is fully set able manner on a sinuous line, so as to form forth in the following specification and acthe double curve 11 of substantially the con-6o oompanying drawings. tourseenin Fig. 2. The material havingbeen :0 My invention relates to improvements in severed on the line H, as indicated, the secdesks, benches, dsc, by means of which I am tions are reversed and the rectilinear surfaces enabled to greatly economize the wood or F and G are glued or otherwise secured toluinber employed in the manufacture of the gether, whereupon it will be apparent that 65 supporting piece or plate therefor, such as the the upper and lower surfaces of the finished 15 seats and backs thereof, since it has heretoseat B are provided with double curvatures fore been the practice to use a thick piece of which are parallel, the contour of the same material and saw or otherwise produce upon corresponding to the line H. the opposite outer surfaces thereof the de- In Fig. 5, J designates a piece of timber 7o sired curvatures for the seat or back. which has the upper and lower rectilinear In the present invention I take a strip of surfaces K and L, while M designates a sinuwood or similar material of rectangular or ouscut intermediate said rectilinearsurfaces, other cross-section and saw or otherwise out which latter are next reversed and placed in the same in a sinuous manner, after which juxtapositiomasindicatedin Fig. 5,and glued 75 the sections are reversed and the rectilinear or otherwise secured together, whereby the or outer surfaces thereof glued or otherwise completed supporting piece or platein this secured together, thus producing at a single instance the back N-is formed, the manner operation a seat or back having the desired of producing the same being analogous to curvature on both sides thereof, the strength that already described with reference to Figs. 8c of the finished article being greatly increased, 2 and since the grain of the different sections can It will be seen that by myinventiona great be placed so as to run oppositely to each other. saving of material is effected, and the seat or It further consists of novel details of conback is also greatly strengthened or stiffened strnction, all as will be hereinafter fully set by reversing the pieces when reassembling forth, and particularly pointed out in the the same, so that while the grains of the two 5 claims. pieces extend in the same general direction Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a theyrun in opposite directionsthat is to say, chair or bench having a seat and back emthe continuity of the grain is disturbed by bodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents an reversing the ends of the reassembled pieces. end elevation of a piece of lumber or other Having thus described my invention, What 0 material, showing the first step in carrying I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters out my invention. Fig. 3 represents an end Patent, isview of the finished product, which consists 1. In a piece of furniture, an exposed supof the parts seen in Fig. 2, the same having porting piece or plate, such as a seat or back, 9 5 been reversed and glued or otherwise secured consisting of sections secured together and 45 in position. Figs. 4 and 5 represent, respechaving rectilinear meeting faces and cor tively, the initial and final steps in the prorelatively-curved outer faces, said piece or duction of aback for adesk or bench in which plate having one of its curved faces exposed a plurality of double curvatures are desired. and forming a supporting-section of the piece I00 Similar letters of reference indicate correof furniture. 5o sponding parts in the figures. 2. A supporting piece or plate for a piece Referring to the drawings, A designates a of furniture, such as a seat or back therefor, chair or bench having the supporting piece composed of two sections secured together faces in contact and with the ends thereof IO reversed, and the sinuous faces forming the outer or Wearing faces of said supporting piece or plate.

LOUIS H. MOKEE.

lVitnesses:

JACOB KNoBELAUoH, WM. 0. WIEDERSHEIM. 

